In Egypt, waiting for results

3:27 PM,
Oct. 12, 2012

Written by

David Ignatius

MENOUFIA, Egypt -- You can see what the Egyptian revolution has achieved, 20 months on, by visiting this rural area of the Nile Delta that was the birthplace of the deposed dictator, Hosni Mubarak: Everything is different outwardly, but beneath the surface, almost nothing has changed yet.

The revolution's impact is most obvious in the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood won the parliamentary elections here, even in this former regime stronghold. And people seem free to say what they think, including sharp criticism of the new president, Mohamed Morsi, in a way that would have been unthinkable ...